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motive

['məutɪv] брит. / амер.

сущ.
1. мотив, побуждение, повод; причина; стимул
2. основная тема, главная мысль, лейтмотив
прил.
1. движущий
2. побудительный, стимулирующий
гл.
1. 1. побуждать
  2. служить мотивом, стимулом
2. обычно страд. мотивировать; указывать причину, мотив

Law (En-Ru)

motive

побуждение, мотив | мотивировать

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It would be a dangerous precedent for us to allow pensions to the wives of these sailors, for it would deprive the others of all motive for laying their money by, and would indirectly encourage vice and dissipation."
Мы не можем назначить пенсии женам умерших матросов, потому что это создаст опасный прецедент и лишит их товарищей всякого желания откладывать деньги на черный день, а значит, косвенным образом явится поощрением порока и распущенности.
Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Firm Of GirdlestoneКонан Дойль, Артур / Торговый Дом Гердлстон
Торговый Дом Гердлстон
Конан Дойль, Артур
© Издательство "Правда", 1966
The Firm Of Girdlestone
Conan Doyle, Arthur
© 1889 by John W. Lowell

That realization was the underlying motive for the inclusion of the sixth paragraph of the Declaration.
Именно осознание этого стало причиной включения пункта шестого в Декларацию.
© Организация Объединенных Наций, 2010 год
http://www.un.org/ 27.12.2010
© United Nations 2010
http://www.un.org/ 27.12.2010

He looked as though he was in a fever, he spoke of the blood that cried for vengeance, the blood of the father murdered by his son, with the base motive of robbery!
Он был как в лихорадке, он вопиял за пролитую кровь, за кровь отца, убитого сыном "с низкою целью ограбления".
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

His secret motive for it, that is, his almost morbid hatred of Stavrogin for the insult to his family four years before, he was for some reason ashamed to confess.
В тайных же побуждениях своих, то-есть просто в болезненной ненависти к Ставрогину за фамильное оскорбление четыре года назад он почему-то совестился сознаться.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The possessedДостоевский, Фёдор / Бесы
Бесы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1989
The possessed
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

"Well, that must be me," she hurried on again. "Of course I am meant. Scarcely more than an hour before, I suggested gold mines to him, and here they talk of 'middle-aged charms' as though that were my motive!
-- Ну как же не я? -- залепетала она опять, -- ведь это я, я почти за час предлагала ему золотые прииски и вдруг "сорокалетние прелести"! Да разве я затем?
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

His immediate motive had been his passionate dread of an encounter between these excellent but unrefined old people and the Walshinghams, but now that end was secured, he could see how thwarted and exasperated they would be.
Удрал он не подумавши, с перепугу, лишь бы не видеть, как превосходные, но отнюдь не обученные тонкому обхождению старики встретились с Уолшингемами, — а теперь, когда бояться уже нечего, ему так ясно представляются их гнев и обида.
Wells, Herbert George / KippsУэллс, Герберт / Киппс
Киппс
Уэллс, Герберт
© Издательство "Правда", 1964
Kipps
Wells, Herbert George
© the Literary Executors of the Estate of H. G. Wells, 1905

If he was in love with someone, he was very clever at hiding it; and he answered all Mildred's questions with frankness and apparently without suspicion that there was any motive in them.
Если он в кого-нибудь и влюбился, он очень ловко это скрывал: на все вопросы Милдред он отвечал с полной откровенностью, по-видимому, не подозревая у нее никаких задних мыслей.
Maugham, Somerset / Of Human BondageМоэм, Сомерсет / Бремя страстей человеческих
Бремя страстей человеческих
Моэм, Сомерсет
© "Издательство иностранной литературы", 1959
Of Human Bondage
Maugham, Somerset
© 1915, 1936 by Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc.

"What a prosaic motive!
— Какой прозаический мотив!
Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Lost WorldКонан Дойль, Артур / Затерянный мир
Затерянный мир
Конан Дойль, Артур
© Издательство ЦК ЛКСМУ «Молодь», 1956
The Lost World
Conan Doyle, Arthur
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1995

"What motive could she possibly have?"
– Какой у нее может быть мотив?
Christie, Agatha / 4.50 From PaddingtonКристи, Агата / В 16.50 от Паддингтона
В 16.50 от Паддингтона
Кристи, Агата
© "Ростовское книжное издательство", 1989
4.50 From Paddington
Christie, Agatha
© 1957 by Agatha Christie Limited

In the first place, she denied that a motive for the deed had been shown.
Она решительно отрицала, что причина убийства обнаружена.
London, Jack / A daughter of the snowsЛондон, Джек / Дочь снегов
Дочь снегов
Лондон, Джек
© Издательство "Правда", 1961
A daughter of the snows
London, Jack
© 1902, Grosset & Dunlap

And the political motive behind it is utterly loathsome — an attempt to justify a tyrannical individual.
И потом же гнуснейшая политическая идея -- оправдание единоличной тирании.
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr / One Day in the Life of Ivan DenisovichСолженицын, Александр / Один день из жизни Ивана Денисовича
Один день из жизни Ивана Денисовича
Солженицын, Александр
© Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1978
© Издательский Дом "Азбука-классикка", 2008
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr
© 1995 Alexander Solzhenitsyn

I should gain by it independence, tranquillity of mind and clearness of motive.
В выигрыше - независимость, спокойствие духа, ясность цели.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / A Raw YouthДостоевский, Фёдор / Подросток
Подросток
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Советская Россия", 1979
A Raw Youth
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

What was your motive for making such a secret of it?
Что побудило вас сделать из этого такой секрет?
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Without some such hidden motive, as we know, ecclesiastical persons do not venture to address temporal ones.
Без такого рода задней мысли, как известно, духовные лица со светскими не заговаривают.
Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.2Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.2
A Sportsman's Sketches v.2
Turgenev, I.S.
© 2006 BiblioBazaar
Записки охотника т.2
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975

That motive is jealousy!"
Причина эта -- ревность!"
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

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'məutɪvNounмотив; побуждение; повод; причина; стимулExamples

altruistic motives — альтруистические побуждения
base motives — низменные побуждения
noble / honorable motives — благородные порывы
selfish motives — эгоистичные помыслы
ulterior motives — тайные побуждения
the highest motives — высочайшие побуждения
profit motive — соображения выгоды
underlying motives — соображения, лежащие в основе
to establish / find a motive — выяснить, найти мотив
to question smb.'s motives — сомневаться в чистоте чьих-л. мотивов
She had no motive to commit the crime. — У неё не было мотивов совершать преступление.
The police could not find a motive for the murder. — Полиция не могла найти причины убийства.
What is the motive behind the bombing? — Каковы причины бомбардировки?

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Collocations

bad motive

низменное побуждение

category of effective motive

категория эффективных мотивов

diesel motive power

дизельный подвижной состав

diesel motive power

тепловозная тяга

direct motive

непосредственное побуждение

driving motive

движущая сила

foul motive

низменное побуждение

good motive

доброе побуждение

improper motive

ненадлежащий мотив

indirect motive

косвенное побуждение

laudable motive

похвальное побуждение

motive cohomology functor

функтор мотивных когомологий

motive force

движущая сила

motive force

энергия

motive power

движущая сила

Word forms

motive

verb

Basic forms
Past	motived
Imperative	motive
Present Participle (Participle I)	motiving
Past Participle (Participle II)	motived

Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I motive	we motive
you motive	you motive
he/she/it motives	they motive

Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am motiving	we are motiving
you are motiving	you are motiving
he/she/it is motiving	they are motiving

Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have motived	we have motived
you have motived	you have motived
he/she/it has motived	they have motived

Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been motiving	we have been motiving
you have been motiving	you have been motiving
he/she/it has been motiving	they have been motiving

Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I motived	we motived
you motived	you motived
he/she/it motived	they motived

Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was motiving	we were motiving
you were motiving	you were motiving
he/she/it was motiving	they were motiving

Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had motived	we had motived
you had motived	you had motived
he/she/it had motived	they had motived

Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been motiving	we had been motiving
you had been motiving	you had been motiving
he/she/it had been motiving	they had been motiving

Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will motive	we shall/will motive
you will motive	you will motive
he/she/it will motive	they will motive

Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be motiving	we shall/will be motiving
you will be motiving	you will be motiving
he/she/it will be motiving	they will be motiving

Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have motived	we shall/will have motived
you will have motived	you will have motived
he/she/it will have motived	they will have motived

Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been motiving	we shall/will have been motiving
you will have been motiving	you will have been motiving
he/she/it will have been motiving	they will have been motiving

Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would motive	we should/would motive
you would motive	you would motive
he/she/it would motive	they would motive

Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be motiving	we should/would be motiving
you would be motiving	you would be motiving
he/she/it would be motiving	they would be motiving

Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have motived	we should/would have motived
you would have motived	you would have motived
he/she/it would have motived	they would have motived

Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been motiving	we should/would have been motiving
you would have been motiving	you would have been motiving
he/she/it would have been motiving	they would have been motiving

Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am motived	we are motived
you are motived	you are motived
he/she/it is motived	they are motived

Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being motived	we are being motived
you are being motived	you are being motived
he/she/it is being motived	they are being motived

Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been motived	we have been motived
you have been motived	you have been motived
he/she/it has been motived	they have been motived

Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was motived	we were motived
you were motived	you were motived
he/she/it was motived	they were motived

Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being motived	we were being motived
you were being motived	you were being motived
he/she/it was being motived	they were being motived

Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been motived	we had been motived
you had been motived	you had been motived
he/she/it had been motived	they had been motived

Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be motived	we shall/will be motived
you will be motived	you will be motived
he/she/it will be motived	they will be motived

Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been motived	we shall/will have been motived
you will have been motived	you will have been motived
he/she/it will have been motived	they will have been motived

motive

noun

	Singular	Plural
Common case	motive	motives
Possessive case	motive's	motives'

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